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by mortenjorck 4585 days ago
Dealing with other lower-DPI screens is what I thought my problem would be, but the biggest issue I've found with moving to a Retina MacBook Pro are the drawbacks of the technology being so new.

Compared with my old CCFL-backlit desktop LCD, the Retina Display's backlight is far less uniform, and whites have a more readily perceptible color shift across the screen. It's not enough to qualify for a replacement (trust me, I tried), but it's nonetheless distracting enough to make me want to do most of my design work on my standard-DPI monitor.
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eropple 4585 days ago
The rMBPs I've run (including my own) across have had very uniform brightness and white color. I'm curious which manufacturer made the LCD in yours because--going from the usual problems with Apple LCDs.

If you aren't aware, you can tease out the LCD manufacturer via the model string and this command:

   ioreg -lw0 | grep "EDID" | sed "/[^<]*</s///" | xxd -p -r
If it begins with LSN, it's a Samsung (which tend to be the good ones); if it's LP, it's an LG (which, unsurprisingly, tend to be the poor ones).
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mortenjorck 4585 days ago
It's an LG. No perceptible image retention, actually (the problem I was worried about), but I think I'd almost prefer it to these issues.
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rfnslyr 4585 days ago
How do you even notice these things?

and whites have a more readily perceptible color shift across the screen

Is yours dysfunctional? Retina screen has honestly been a godsend.

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mortenjorck 4585 days ago
It's a blessing and a curse. I'm sure at least 50% of people wouldn't even notice, and 90% wouldn't find it distracting. Alas, I do.
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